Bad reviews and low attendance have led to a significant drop in ticket prices for Sigourney Weaver's West End debut in Shakespeare's The Tempest.
Ticket prices for Sigourney Weaver 's West End debut in Shakespeare's The Tempest have been slashed after a string of bad reviews apparently put theatregoers off. The cost of watching the play at London's Theatre Royal Drury Lane has been dramatically slashed from £231 to just £85. A spate of bad reviews in part focused on 75-year-old Weaver's turn as Prospero. On Friday, over half of the theatre's most expensive tickets that cost between £169 to £231 were still available.
Half-empty auditoriums were visible on the website until the end of the production on February 1, according to The Times. Meanwhile, the most expensive tickets for Much Ado About Nothing are already being sold before its opening on February 10. The Tempest's December opening was the first time Shakespeare had been performed in the Theatre Royal Drury Lane since Sir John Gielgud had performed as Prospero in the same play from 1957-58. The building's owner, Andrew Lloyd Webber, said at the final performance in 1958, Gielgud 'broke Prospero's staff and pronounced that Shakespeare would never again be performed at the Theatre Royal as it would be 'lost to musicals'.' Oliver Ryan, Jamie Lloyd, Jude Akuwudike, Forbes Masson, Mathew Horne, Mason Alexander Park, Sigourney Weaver, Selina Cadell, Tim Steed, Mara Huf, James Phoon and Jason Barnett Sigourney Weaver made her West End debut as Prospero in the new production of William Shakespeare's play The Tempest (pictured in May) Lloyd Webber said that he is 'determined to prove him wrong'. Sigourney Weaver made her West End debut as Prospero in the new production of The Tempest while Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell star in Much Ado About Nothing. The two plays are part of a season of Shakespeare by The Jamie Lloyd Company at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. They are the first plays by the Bard to be staged at the theatre since Peter Brook's production of The Tempest starring John Gielgud in 1957
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